2026--isn't it hard to believe that it is here already? On January 1, 2021, I began my service as your Associational Mission Strategist. That was also when I did my first interim pastorate at Maggie Valley First Baptist Church, and now I am into #6 at Bethel. 5 years--half a decade--as time races by, and we look back and wonder how much has been accomplished for kingdom work in our Haywood Baptist Churches. I am not satisfied with my job performance. I am not content with w

“For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.” (Isaiah 9:6-7 NKJV) This

Maybe you are thinking: I can't sin in heaven. True--and I am so glad we will be free from evil forever. We will not even want to sin! Yet, there is something else you can't do in heaven, and we will wish we had one more opportunity--to lead someone to salvation! The door of salvation that is open now will be forever closed then. At the end of the age the eternal destiny of every human being will be fixed and final--heaven or hell! So, if you are going to tell someone about J